[dennisw]

One little girl stopped the Apple greed heads in their tracks!!!! Taylor Smith knew Apple could not take this hit to their image. That Apple was ripping off artists who really need the money. Of course TS is worth a few hundred million so is not dependant on what Apple does. But she spoke up for all artists when she called Tim Cook out! TS helped the struggling musicians so more power to her!!

[BlueNgold]

wow.
Add some bold and italics and we might get your point...

[ifinnegan]

Was Swift going to abstain for the three months?

She and her company surely did not need to abstain, it would certainly not have been any financial hardship for them.

But now, the majors will all be involved and swamp the indies.

This only helps already established corporate acts and greatly hurts exposure of lesser know independents and smaller labels.

It was in no way an altruistic move, in fact quite the opposite.

[AFreeBird]

Do you know what this means?

Capitalism actually works!

Good for Miss Swift. And good for Apple.

Kinda funny that Apple’s new programming language is called “Swift”.

[Swordmaker]

Apple says that the artists are going to be paid during the 90 day demo period. . . some take this as being a "caving in" but it actually looks as if it was their original intent policy because Eddie Cue stated that "Apple will always make sure that artist are paid,” not that they have changed the policy which was that Apple would be paying artist on a 70/30 split—with Apple taking the short end—of all revenue generated by the Apple Streaming Radio system on play counts, a far better return to artists than what is paid by the other systems. All of this kerfuffle was based on rumors about the first three month free period and the potential that there would be no revenues during that period and the demand from some artists that they get their usual full rates while the offerings may not be generating full revenues yet, even though listeners could start buying subscriptions from day one, which is REVENUE which they WILL be sharing!

Apple has NEVER stiffed the artists, creative talents, programers, or authors of the content the iTunes and App Stores sells, having passed on over $30 BILLION in revenues to developers, authors, and artists. Why should Apple start "stiffing them" now? SHEESH! — PING!

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